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On 2011-03-28 18:19Z, world peace wrote:
> Ques: I am trying to install some programs (meant for linux platform)
> on cygwin. The instructions prompt me to do make, make install,
> configure etc. The only problem is I don't know how to become root

http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.using.su

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